this press conference. >> dana: hillary vaughn, thank you so much. good to see you in your green. green new deal on. before we go, jacque, this is cool. an underwater discovery off the coast of the greek islands, european researchers uncovering a total of ten shipwrecks along with artifacts some of them dated back to 3,000 b.c. the newest from world war ii. they contain dishes and other things from greece and africa. they offer new information about the history of the region. that's kind of cool. >> jacque: they sunk over different periods of time. >> dana: in the same spot. was it like the bermuda triangle of greece? will there be a government shutdown? >> jacque: we'll see, midnight. >> dana: that's only about 13 hours from now. great to have you, jacque. julie banderas is in for harris. >> julie: thank you very much. start with a fox news alert and

sad story on the whereabouts of a missing college student. the body of riley strain has been found. he has been missing since march 8th. a finance student. he goes to the university of missouri, a senior in college and he and his fraternity were visiting nashville for his fraternity's spring formal trip. celebrating at a bar and drinking a lot. he was said to have left the bar very intoxicated. asked to leave, in fact. he disappeared. they did eventually find his body in a river that leads to no foul play according to police right now. they say no foul play, no trauma. could be of natural causes. more information on this. we have a reporter on the story and bring you on this very sad ending to this missing persons case coming up. another fox news alert. all-out chaos at the southern border. so far silence from the white house. is surreal scene in el paso,

texas. illegal immigrants rushing to cross the border. the migrants in the process of being deported surrendered with the knowledge that once back in the u.s. they will be allowed to stay at least until a court date probably years away, if never. "the faulkner focus", hello, i'm julie banderas in for harris. happy friday for you. for anyone who doesn't believe there is a true crisis at the border, you must watch this. [shouting]

>> julie: unbelievable. house speaker mike johnson calling the footage chilling. senator tim scott says, quote, just in case people are unsure, this is what an invasion looks like. the "new york post" reporter who witnesses the chaos with this. >> what we know catch and release, these are people that are mainly released into the country. so this sends the message to people around the world that even if you act like this, you can probably get into the country and i think they continue to push these boundaries and to see what they can get away with. here they got away with some really, really scary stuff and, you know, assaulting -- appeared to be assaulting some of the national guardsmen. it was totally out of control. >> julie: one guardsman was assaulted. another word she used to

describe the madness, riot. the out let's front page today onslaught. just the latest example, folks. highlighting biden's failure on voters' top issue. democratic lawmaker turning a blind eye yet again. >> we're funding homeland security. an important priority. >> is that enough? when you look at the video it's pretty dramatic? >> i haven't seen the video. >> i'm playing it right now. >> thank you. >> julie: we're waiting to learn the fate of a texas law which is designed to protect its border. a judge is set to rule on the new law that would let police arrest migrants they see crossing the border illegally. nate foye is at the border in eagle pass, texas with more. >> so that law is called senate bill four. if it were in effect the migrants who rushed that wall in el paso could have been arrested and deported without being turned over to border patrol. however, they were and were

processed under title eight. that means they will be given notice to appear in immigration court and many will be released into our country while one migrant is charged with assaulting a texas national guard soldier. take another look. over 300 single adult migrants, many from venezuela, you see push past the razor wire south of the border wall and trample over the national guardsmen. the "new york post" reporter who witnessed this explains what led up to this chaos. >> there were 300 single adults. 300 families and children and women on the other side. those people were going to be taken for processing by bourp. that was their priority. single adults were taken into small groups back to mexico. they realized that was their fate and it just within a matter of seconds became absolute

chaos. >> cbp put out a statement in response to the surge saying in part individuals and families without a legal basis to remain in the u.s. are subject to removal and are subject to a minimum five year bar on reapplying for admission. that is after migrants are often released into the country and given those notices to appear in court. more than that, julie, this is important in this case. i mentioned that many of these men are venezuelans. venezuela isn't accepting migrants deport evidence from the u.s. many migrants aren't welcome back in their home country. democrats are beginning to react on capitol hill. >> it's not just about security, it's a humane process to treat folks as they are coming in. many who are seeking -- >> texas governor greg abbott posted on x quote dps is instructed to arrest every illegal immigrant involved for criminal trespass and destruction of property. right now again, julie, only one

migrant has been arrested. i'm told that number could go up. we'll send it back to you. >> julie: there is a new column outlining what biden's madness will bring to america lays the devastating impact on biden's border policy on communities and migrants as well and points out that cartels are taking all of their money and leaving them in a brand-new country alone and broke. it also warns of an increase in crime. we know that. we've seen high-profile examples of that in recent months. ben domin dome -- our panel joe now. thank you for coming on. speaking of the crisis of the border. we showed the video of migrants rushing the border over

overwhelming border patrol. biden didn't visit the border but in dallas while there he drew a compareson between himself and donald trump. i don't demonize immigrants is what he said. matt, let me -- i don't even know what to say. ben, i will ask you first. more worried about protecting illegal immigrants than keeping them out and on top of that keeping these border patrol agents safe. >> well, the thing to understand about what you are seeing there when it comes to this bum rush as you said of the razor wire and the national guard is that this isn't something that happens organically. the cartels are in control of their side of the border. so they use and deploy these migrants in ways to send messages. i think there were two messages being sent by this incident. one, given the place that it was happening, if you actually wanted to have those people cross the border successfully, you would have done it in a different area without fencing.

you wouldn't have done it in the el paso area where there is fencing. instead they wanted to have this kind of image play out for americans to see. the message there is one to the state of texas, that an assertion of control. despite their efforts when it comes to sb4 and others to arrest these migrants, they are saying look at what we're capable of doing from the cartel side. then it is also a message to the administration, to the biden administration saying you better come down on texas, come down hard on them to prevent this type of law from moving forward. otherwise we can do this in other places and more frequently and they know that that has a political impact when it comes to the presidential election. >> julie: if this doesn't send a strong message to the white house, i don't know what does. honestly, if there weren't fencing up there he would have less of an obstacle in order to get into this country. there needs to be more.

the former president wanted a wall. logistically speaking maybe unrealistic but you have to have something. >> no doubt, julie. i agree more needs to be done. the message to all washington because the reality of it is that there is not one democrat that believes in open borders. what you have is the second most conservative republican in the senate authored the most comprehensive immigration bill we've had me over a decade to make sure we have thousands more border agents to give those national guardsmen backup and make sure we have enough to secure our borders. that's all they want. the problem is this. they passed a budget six months after it was due six months ago. the budget is getting past within the next 24 hours, thank goodness hopefully they will focus now like a bulldog on a bone on immigration to protect our borders. >> julie: they have had 3 1/2 years to do so. the situation has grown larger. you have to look at the numbers.

i'm looking at the numbers. those are the facts and it doesn't seem the white house doesn't want to face the facts. thank you, that's all the time we have. fox news alert now. house is right now voting on a 1.2 trillion spending bill. the deadline to fund the government is midnight tonight. otherwise there will be a partial government shutdown. if it passes in the house, the senate could take this up this weekend. of course we'll monitor all of this for you and bring you any news as it happens. a new whistleblower has come forward with major allegations about hunter biden's tax probe. they claim federal officials were told not to interview one key associate of the president's son. plus time is running out for trump to pay his massive new york bond. almost half a billion dollars. many legal analysts calling out the massive judgment against the

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million in cash. substantial amount of which i intended to use in my campaign for president. missouri's attorney general popping off on new york's a.g. >> this is a gross miscarriage of justice. this was a fraud trial. the only fraud here is that a.g. letitia james is masquerading as a competent attorney weaponizing the justice system against him and terrible for all americans. it undermines due process and the rule of law. >> julie: cb cotton joins me with more. >> as the monday deadline looms to secure a bond for nearly half a billion dollars trump may now stand to gain a windfall of cash. his social media company that operates the platform truth social will go public. the "new york times" reports mr. trump's personal stake will be worth more than $3 billion. this development comes after trump's legal team told the court earlier this week it has been struggling to secure a bond for an appeal of the massive

civil fraud judgment against trump. his lawyers told the court insurance companies would not accept his real estate as collateral. as the countdown to get it done winds down, it appears new york attorney general letitia james has been gearing up to collect on the judgment through a possible asset seizure. home to two of trumps's properties in westchester county to allow her to secure a lien against those properties in the future. trump has asked the appeals court to accept a smaller bond of $1 hundred million while he appeals the civil fraud judgment against him or allow him to not post one at all. former acting attorney general matt whitaker told fox a decision of that won't come quickly. >> the appeals court is in no hurry and no reason to decide by monday. could decide at any point in time. could decide today or three

weeks. that puts donald trump and his companies in a tight spot if they have to come up with a half billion dollars. >> shares of trump's media company could begin to be publicly trading as of monday. >> julie: our constitutional law attorney and former federal prosecutor joins me now. let's talk about the appeal process first. this amount of money is insane. it is astronomical. half a billion dollars. it is no wonder why it will take some time to secure a bond for almost half a billion dollars and the timing in all of this seems very let's just say political, if you will. he is running for president and who has three days to come up with $5 hundred million. who has that kind of money? not even trump. >> it is completely unprecedented. the good thing is i think the trump team has a very strong argument for the appellate court to stay the execution of this

judgment. essentially to accept a lesser bond or to not require any bond at all because there is a very clear law in new york that allows for the court to consider all relevant factors, including the merits of a potential appeal. here there is a significant argument this appeal would be meritorious and to consider the personal hardships of the party that's requesting that. i do believe that the court has a lot of law on its side to grant this execution or the stay of the execution. so i wouldn't anticipate a response from them even today yet because this appeal deadline is approaching and it will cut off his right to appeal this case all together if that bond is not posted. >> the former president and many others have speculated this is politically motivated. if letitia james goes after his assets and starts seizing real estate such as the golf course, estate in north of new york city. if she starts doing that and let's say the motivation is

political could it not backfire? if the motivation is to drive trump supporters away it will do the opposite. we have seen that time and time again. every time you come after trump people come and rise up and back him even further. i don't know, it seems political. is this a typical time span to have to come up with this time of money or a small window of time? >> well, the time span is typical. the appellate court has certain deadlines in order to pursue an appeal and in order to do so you have to post a bond. the problem here is the amount of money, which is obviously political. everybody can tell there is no logical ties between the amount that were adjudgeed against trump and the trump organization to anything happened. no fraud victims and no complaining parties. that aspect is entirely political. i do think that the trump side has a strong argument that the appellate court should step in and allow the appeals to proceed

without allowing james to seize the assets, which she would be able to do if she is not doing the appeal. that's the execution of that judgment. >> julie: the appellate court doesn't move that quickly. he he has to come up with the money or she will start seizing assets. republican lawmakers are saying a new whistleblower is claiming the c.i.a. blocked federal investigators from interviewing a key hunter biden associate. i wonder why? kevin morris joined hunter in one of his capitol hill stunts where he crashed a house hearing on hunter's failure to comply with a subpoena. now the wealthy hollywood attorney has also paid some of hunter's legal fees. conflict of interest there? here is house judiciary chair jim jordan. >> we don't know if he is an asset, we don't know if he is regularly talking with someone being surveilled. this is kevin morris, a guy who has loaned and/or bought

millions of dollars for hunter biden. loaned him $6 million. bought a million dollars in artwork. so many things wrong with this investigation and that's why chairman comer and i have sent a letter finding out why count they talk to the guy? >> julie: questions about why the f.b.i. didn't want to hear from tony bobulinski? he is the key witness in the gop impeachment inquiry to president biden. and yesterday house republicans sued two justice department officials who happen to work on the hunter tax investigation. no coincidence here, the panel says to uncover all the facts the committee requires testimony from two current or former tax division attorneys who have firsthand knowledge of the irregularities in doj's investigation that appear to have benefited hunter biden. it is no surprise that hunter biden's father is the president of the united states because if he was not, these interviews would have been conducted, would you agree? >> absolutely.

this is an incredibly troubling. there is significant questions that if what this whistleblower is saying is true, what information does mr. morris have and why is he being prevented from the interviews by law enforcement agents? if we can't trust the highest levels of law enforcement in the country we're in a true deep state situation here. >> julie: absolutely. thank you for talking to us. we appreciate you coming on. we have a fox news alert for you. tragic update in the search for missing university of missouri student riley strain. police just announcing moments ago the 22-year-old's body was indeed found in tennessee's cumberland river this morning. that's about eight miles from downtown nashville where he was, in fact, last seen on march 8th when he was leaving a bar. senior correspondent steve harrigan has been following the story. heartbreaking for the family. our thoughts and prayers are with them. what is the latest?

>> the agonizing search for the past two weeks has come to an end. nashville police confirming the body of riley strain, 22-year-old university of missouri student was found in the cumberland river eight miles to the west of nashville this morning. found by a man moving a barge. they confirmed the identity of riley strain. he was kicked out of a nashville bar two weeks ago. visiting the city with fraternity brothers and told them he would go back to the hotel by himself. police video shows him stumbling at one point on the sidewalk likely intoxicated. later interaction with a police officer showed him visibly less impaired but police have maintained throughout this case there has been no sign of foul play. >> there are no signs of foul play at this time according to the examination here at the riverbank. >> riley was wearing the same sthirt and same watch when he was found and police said that

they expected if he did fall in the river that body would surface between 14 and 20 days. today is day 14. julie, back to you. >> julie: steve harrigan. thank you. republicans are investigating the i.r.s. again. they think the agency may be using artificial intelligence to spy on americans with no legal process. plus just when you thought it was gone, it's back from the ashes. >> we are reintroducing the green new deal for public housing today. [cheers and applause] we do not have to accept this world that we are living in now. we can imagine and we can achieve something new. >> julie: aoc leading a push to revive the wildly mocked plan. the far left wish list has gas stoves on the chopping block again. joe concha cooks with gas and he will be in big trouble next.

>> julie: more concerns about i.r.s. overreach. republicans are launching an investigation wanting to know whether the i.r.s. is using a.i. to inaappropriately surveil you. they said it was using it to help with compliance. that also includes active monitoring of people's bank accounts en masse. house oversight chair jim jordan and colleague wrote letters to garland and yellen. they say fundamental civil liberties. according to republicans president biden's budget would give the agency more money. >> authorizes $104 billion in mandatory spending for the i.r.s. on top of what the

discretionary dollars the i.r.s. already has to continue the democrats' bad idea of sticking it to the american taxpayer. and harassing them when it comes to their tax liabilities. >> julie: joe concha joins me now. we'll get to your gas problem in a second. in a september 2023 press release the i.r.s. said that a.i. will quote help i.r.s. compliance teams better detect tax cheating. identify emerging threats and improve key selection tools to avoid burdening taxpayers with needless no change audits. decide for yourself. it sounds to me like spying. >> it is spying, julie. imagine running in an election year on expanding the i.r.s. and targeting american taxpayers. the i.r.s., which is as popular as gas station sushi, that's what we appear to be focusing on as far as expanding that

particular entity. this is the i.r.s. using technology. advanced a.i. technology to span their reach not go after rich people but small businesses and citizens struggling to get by. the recent reporting shows the i.r.s. has also targeted through a.i. actively monitoring american citizens' bank accounts and private transactions and where money is donated to. >> julie: we have breaking news. antony blinken is speaking in israel and we'll listen quick. >> anyone taking steps that makes things more difficult and challenging is something we have a problem with. >> when you say we have teams, u.s. has teams on the ground in dough do what today? >> it is not announced in the hours ahead.

>> thank you. can you tell us in practical terms what the u.s. was trying to achieve with the resolution that was put forward at the united nations today? on your conversations today, you described in broad strokes some themes that are familiar. i wonder whether you delivered or heard any messages today that are new and different from your past conversations here? >> so on the resolution, which got very strong support, but then was cynically vetoed by russia and china, i think we were trying to show the international community's sense of urgency about getting a cease-fire tied to the release of hostages. something that everyone, including the countries that vetoed the resolution, should have been able to get behind. the resolution, of course, condemned hamas, it's unimaginable why countries wouldn't be able to do that. but i think the fact that we got such a strong vote despite the

veto by two of the members of the security council is a demonstration of the commitment, conviction of countries around the world on the security council to see about getting this cease-fire, getting a release of hostages now. that's what the resolution said. that's what it called for. and i think it showed that there was a strong commitment from many, many countries. with regard to the conversations we had, look, this is an ongoing process. as i said we were focused on three things. hostage negotiations, humanitarian assistance and rafah. it was important that again we focus on all three things. i can't -- i won't get into the details of what we discussed but i think from my perspective at least these were important, candid conversations to have at a critical time on all three of

those issues. thanks. >> isolated if it doesn't change its path? >> what i shared and i think what they heard from president biden as well directly is we have the same goals. the defeat of hamas, israel's long-term security. rafah isn't a way to achieve it. we think. we have a senior team coming to washington next week, we'll all be taking part and the discussions will be able to lay out for them in detail. it is important the teams with all the expertise lay out in detail how those goals can best be accomplished with an integrated humanitarian military and political plan. we'll put all that on the table. we'll hear from them, too. and take it to next week. thanks. >> julie: the secretary of state

antony blinken meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in tel aviv this morning. they are out for a diplomatic push for sustained and immediate cease-fire in gaza. the efforts facing a major blow with the failure of a u.n. security council resolution that called for a cease-fire tied to the release of the hostages held by hamas. he told us he met with some of the hostages' families, the victims's families there. their push is to get a diplomatic resolution. a lot of pressure on the white house to put the pressure on israel for a cease-fire and get the hostages released and back to their families. we'll continue to watch it as it unfolds. go back to joe concha now. we have to switch topics before i have to let you go since we're short on time. it may be green but not new. want to talk about the progressive lawmakers pushing to revive the green new deal. everyone knew it with as a joke.

now they look to use it in public housing and to cut carbon emissions by targeting things like gas stoves and cars. the bill would spend $234 billion transitioning public housing to 0 carbon homes and replace appliances relying on fossil fuels and add solar plan else and deploy easy charging infrastructure for public housing. >> we have to return to an era of rebuilding public housing in the united states. we have to reject the idea that it's broken policy. >> we'll stand up and transform our energy system. it is plantation capitalism to have someone paying 40, 50, 60% of their salary towards rent. >> julie: cutting out gas stoves and water heaters is not going to resolve that problem. it's small band-aid on a much bigger issue.

>> there is rhetoric and reality. open the borders and see what happens. rhetoric and now we see reality. same with all these proposals. good news this bill won't pass. we know it despite being the darling of most of the media and as active as a drunken sophomore on social media aoc has never sponsored or co-sponsored any bill that has actually become law. not one in six years in office. so this is all foam and no beer as is usually the case with ocasio-cortez whose district literally has gone into a third world country because of an illegal migrant crisis that she embraces and expects her constituents to pay for. public housing if built to this capacity will only serve to house those illegal migrants and not the people who are here legally anyway. it won't pass. what are we even talking about? >> julie: it drives the narrative and takes us away from the real problems at the border and we were going to talk about something else to distract us

from what's really the problem in the country. thank you. speaking of the housing crisis, a squatting situation has become a crisis in the country. in new york city it turned deadly. police say the squatters killed a woman and are on the run. disturbing details and the latest on the search. it's four years since the nationwide covid lockdown including widespread school closures. new data out that shows u.s. students are still suffering. a new study suggests those lockdown learning losses might be permanent. what are the lessons if we face another pandemic? dr. marc siegel up next.

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>> julie: breaking news on capitol hill. the spending vote has just passed and we are going to go to aishah hosni now. basically this is a good big step. this now will be in the hands of the senate. the deadline was tonight midnight before a possible government shutdown. it has just passed seconds ago in the house. congressional correspondent aishah hosni joins us live on capitol hill. what happens next? >> we were waiting for it to hit 288. the magic number. turned out to be 286. exactly what they got.

there were some members missing today. so they just gaveled. it faces some hurdles in the senate. what is happening on the house floor, some drama going on. congressman marjorie taylor greene according to a source in knowledge of the situation happening on the floor, she has just filed a motion to vacate the speaker of the house mike johnson because there has been so much frustration and anger over this $1 trillion spending bill that they say is full a pork and not enough border provisions. they didn't want to see it happen. now she has filed that motion to vacate. i will say it is not privileged yet. what that means for everyone watching at home is it's not live. it doesn't mean -- once it is privileged if she decides to make it privileged it will send a message to the speaker of the house you have to take this up

now in the next two legislative days. now the house is going on break for two weeks so that wouldn't happen until they come back. it would be put off for two weeks. as of right now i'm told that motion is not privileged. right now it's just sitting in the hopper. she has taken some pieces of paper and dropped it in the hopperthe box where you drop the bills and she is at least started that step. right now i'm told it is not privileged and not live. so because it's not privileged it will just basically sit until she decides to make it live. we're not sure if she will decide to do that right now. if she decides to make this live, she would have to wait to do that until after these next two votes. we're still in the vote series. we're waiting to see if she speaks and decides to do that after the next two votes. again yes, this is $1 trillion bill has passed. a lot of frustration, a lot of anger from house freedom caucus

members, including mtg earlier this morning. i asked bob good about a possible motion to vacant. at the end of the day the buck stops with the speaker, the one in charge and gets to put the bills on the floor and he is deciding to do so. why aren't you filing a motion to vacate? he was side stepping that and saying he wasn't interested in doing that but he was never interested in pursuing a motion to vacate with former speaker kevin mccarthy. a lot of folks when asked about this basically said they weren't interested. marjorie taylor greene is taking action. we're watching the house floor to see if she makes this live now. >> julie: thank you very much. this is 1,112 pages passed at 2:23 in the morning. nothing happens positive after 2:00 in the morning. as far as pork is concerned this is what the issue is for republicans. $850,000 for a gay senior home. $15 million to pay for egyptians

college tuition. egyptians that don't live in the country, not americans. $4 hundred thousand for a gay activity group to teach elementary kids about being trans. $15 million for the egyptian college funds. crazy, 400,000 to help teens to hide their genders, that's the stuff in this bill. 1,112 pages that most did not have the time to read and then they have to go and pass it before a government shutdown. that's all for that. we have to move on to another story before we wrap up the hour. it has been four years since schools shut down during the covid pandemic and stunning new data show american students are falling further behind in the classroom. this could be a permanent problem. a "new york times" report finding that students who spent more time in remote class he fell behind in math by more than half a grade. it is worse for students in the nation's poorest districts. they fell behind more than 2/three of a grade. students in poor districts were

likely to stay remote longer. dr. marc siegel, fox news contributor and professor of medicine joins me now. as a mother of three young children who unfortunately had to suffer from remote learning and i still until this day see they are behind and now i'm hearing this could be a permanent problem. so obviously america needs to wake up and get ready for the next pandemic. there will be another one. >> julie, we were talking about this as far back as 2020. i talked to dr. danny benjamin of duke who study extensively whether schools spread covid or not. another thing this report that the times is reporting on out of harvard and stanford points out is schools did not decrease the spread of covid by closing schools. that's really important. benjamin determined in 2021 yet with major studies, a pediatric infectious disease public health

specialist at duke. he determined if you used mitigating strategies at schools. wearing a mask, opening a window and having a vaccine you could keep the schools open. we knew back in 2021 that closing schools would have huge impacts on learning especially in poor areas, especially in socially disadvantaged kids stuck at home with parents who then couldn't go to work and didn't have a tutor. they were socially isolateed. learning takes place with interaction between a teacher and child face-to-face. studies show even hybrid learning over a year, eighth grade specifically a real transition year, you lost a half year of math by being either hybrid or remote for a year. that's not surprising. as you said, it may not be easily reversed, either. those -- every grade has different course requirement. if you miss eighth grade.

>> julie: i struggle withholding my children back. they are so behind with math in particular. i knowed to move on to something else. a major medical first at a hospital in boston. a pig kidney into a human patient for the first time. a 62-year-old was suffering end stage kidney disease before undergoing the four-hour lifesaving surgery. scientists are developing pigs to address a critical shortage of human donor organs. it is revolutionary. >> we have been studying it at nyu since 2021. th three pig kidneys transplanted into patients. now and awake and alert man. they've been studying how to do this. a company called e-genesis is using genetic editors to alter the pig kidney so we don't reject it and work personal and same size as a human kidney.

this man had one failed transplant already. this is the road to the future with bridges to transplant because, julie, 100,000 people a year are waiting for body organs in the united states. over 80% of them are waiting for kidneys. we need something for a bridge. we need something so that people who can't tolerate dialysis can have this instead. it's exciting. another quick point. your kids are geniuses and don't need to be held back. >> julie: they are struggling. i won't pretend my kids are perfect by any stretch. dr. siegel, thank you so much. we love you, thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." i'm julie banderas in for harris, "outnumbered" is after the break. have a great weekend, everyone.

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